Not by Might Nor By Power: Jesus Revolution

So many people have opinions about me, that I feel the Lord would have me tell my own story –– starting with a short account of my bizarre childhood. I was born in the Santa Ana Hospital to Ray Frisbee and Janette Ashley on June 6, 1949.

My father is a full-blooded American Indian — Cherokee and Choctaw. My grandfather lived on an Indian reservation. My father was a country western entertainer who played in honkytonks. He was a womanizer and an alcoholic.

One of my earliest recollections is of Ray Frisbee beating my mother. He used to do things like break all the dishes, and bust all the windows out of the house. A lot of it had to do with uncontrolled rage. He would break eggs on the ceiling. He would literally take raw eggs, and throw them up on the ceiling while laughing hysterically. This was when he was drunk. One of his last girlfriends told me that she had to put a restraining order against my father; that he had consecutively busted out every window of the house ﬁve times with the grand ﬁnale of putting a kitchen chair through the television. He went through ﬁve sets of windows and a TV. He almost killed the woman because he beat her so badly.

So Ray constantly beat my mother, and I would hear my mother screaming under the ﬁst popping blows of my father’s dysfunctional life. As an infant I recall him being very cruel to my mother with a lot of screaming and crying. I could hear her from my crib. I knew it was my baby crib, because it had bars on it. I also remember as a toddler coming into the kitchen, and walking on glass. Besides being an alcoholic, and a womanizer, my father was a gambler. He brutalized all of the people that were in his life. I often describe my biological father, Ray Frisbee –– as a “Cherokee Indian, honky-tonk singer with whisky breath.”

Lonnie Frisbee

This personal, honest look at an imperfect hero is written by Lonnie Frisbee with Roger Sachs, a close personal friend of Lonnie. Through interviews with firsthand witnesses, close friends, and hours of personal testimony from Lonnie himself, follow the journey of Lonnie’s life from his troubled childhood, to his radical conversion, and incredible ministry. See his influence in the birth of the Jesus Movement. Walk with Lonnie during the formation of Calvary Chapel. How Kathryn Kuhlman influenced him. Travel with him around the world, hearing firsthand stories of lives changed and restored. Discover Lonnie’s role in the growth of the Vineyard movement and hear how he personally influenced such key leaders as Chuck Smith, John Wimber, Greg Laurie, Mike MacIntosh, and many others. Weep with Lonnie during his devastating backslide . . . and rejoice at his restoration.